Paul N. Sharp v. Gordon B. Leonard

Paul N. Sharp, a prisoner in the Ohio Chillicothe Correctional Institute, appeals from the summary judgment of the district court dismissing his action seeking injunctive, declaratory and monetary relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Sharp contends that he was deprived of due process of law in a parole release hearing. Defendants assert that Sharp was denied parole because of the serious nature of the crimes for which he was incarcerated in 1976 and because of his past history as a parole violator.

The record shows that Sharp was convicted in an Ohio court in 1946 for operating a motor vehicle…